I was wondering if I, talian native speaker with a Cambridge b2 with 171, could possibly read a farewell to arms by Hernest Hemingway in English. What do you think about this?
Hemingway is renowned for the simplicity of his prose; go for it!
Bray_Is_Cray on
Hemmingway is pretty famous for using simple direct language. He’s the perfect author for a non native speaker to dip their toes into English lit, I say go for it!
fuckry_at_its_finest on
Yeah, I think so. *A Farewell to Arms* is considered quite an easy read for a native English speaker. Its reputation as a ‘mature’ book has to do with it’s complicated themes, which are universal, in the sense that their ability to be understood should not be hindered substantially by a language barrier. I’m not entirely sure how well they are correlated, but from what I found online your score appears to correspond to around 800-1200 Lexile score (depending on the publisher), and *A Farewell to Arms* has a Lexile score of 700. By the way, Lexile scores correspond to a book’s difficulty based on vocabulary and sentence structure. So, from both my personal experience and my brief research I think you could probably read *A Farewell to Arms* and understand it well at your current level
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Hemingway is renowned for the simplicity of his prose; go for it!
Hemmingway is pretty famous for using simple direct language. He’s the perfect author for a non native speaker to dip their toes into English lit, I say go for it!
Yeah, I think so. *A Farewell to Arms* is considered quite an easy read for a native English speaker. Its reputation as a ‘mature’ book has to do with it’s complicated themes, which are universal, in the sense that their ability to be understood should not be hindered substantially by a language barrier. I’m not entirely sure how well they are correlated, but from what I found online your score appears to correspond to around 800-1200 Lexile score (depending on the publisher), and *A Farewell to Arms* has a Lexile score of 700. By the way, Lexile scores correspond to a book’s difficulty based on vocabulary and sentence structure. So, from both my personal experience and my brief research I think you could probably read *A Farewell to Arms* and understand it well at your current level